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Fort Lauderdale, January 16, 2013
All LinkedIn users can now automatically get an email stationary based on their profile to use with their regular emails.
WrapMail, Inc. (OTC:WRAP) announced today that it has released a new solution enabling users to sign up for free with their LinkedIn account. WRAPmail's software then automatically creates a WRAP (email stationary) from the users LinkedIn profile featuring their image, name and other information pulled from LinkedIn using their API. This follows the release last month of the same solution for Facebook users. The WRAP is created in seconds and then sent to the user with instructions on how to start using WRAPmail using one of our toolbars available for Google Chrome, Firefox, Apple Safari and Internet Explorer for Gmail, Yahoo, AOL, GoDaddy and Microsoft Hotmail/Live/Outlook/365. Users of cell phones or email clients receive instructions on how to change their email setup to route their emails through our servers where they will be WRAPPED.
"I am very excited about this release that will make it possible for over 175 million LinkedIn users to have an automatically created interactive email stationary/letterhead that they then can use with all their regular emails" stated Rolv E. Heggenhougen, WRAPmail's CEO. Heggenhougen added that: "We will also soon release an automated feature where these email letterheads (WRAPS) will automatically update themselves as users update their LinkedIn profile with new images and/or information".
CEO Heggenhougen further commented that "we believe that these automatically created WRAPS can lead to mass adoptions and soon be self-perpetuating and that obtaining a 1% success rate (about 1.75M LinkedIn users) is feasible." Heggenhougen concluded that "should we reach only 10% of our 1% goal we will have added about 1.75M daily emails that are WRAPPED (as users send about 10 emails each per day)".
The solution is free with 3rd party ads (minimum 7 ads) or available for $50/year with no 3rd party ads. Direct signup is at: http://pro.wrapmail.com/signup/agreement.asp (Facebook and LinkedIn signup at top of page).
The idea behind WRAPmail is to utilize the everyday realities that almost everyone has a website, social network site(s) and also sends emails every day. These emails can become complete marketing tools and help promote, brand, sell and cross-sell in addition to drive traffic to the websites and help conduct marketing research (through tracking analysis). WRAPmail is available for free (with 3rd party ads) or for a license fee. No routines change as users simply download a toolbar or route emails via Google or WRAPmail's servers. While the focus is on one-and one email, WRAPmail also offers an Enterprise solution where clients can send unlimited email campaigns using the same technology that avoids the RED X when emails arrive. Wrapmail's solutions are built so that recipients see images right away and are not as quick to discard the email due to the lack of seeing anything enticing or for being afraid of viruses when they would otherwise download the images.
WRAPmail's revenue models are Advertising Revenue through our own Ad Network where users can advertise in other user's emails (predominantly in the free user's emails), license fees from ad-free and Enterprise clients and Premium licensed Sports Team and Celebrity WRAP Sales to Fans.
WRAPmail is a Google Apps vendor, Google Affiliate and also compatible with Google Analytics.
WRAPmail charges advertisers a minimum of $0.005 per impression and $0.25 per click. There are a minimum of 7 ads in each email sent from free users so when we have successfully signed on advertisers each email generates a minimum of 3.5 cents revenue for WRAPmail. Our goal is to attract advertisers as volume grows with the following milestone targets:
- 1. 10k free users sending 10 emails each/day = $3,500/day revenue to WRAPmail
- 2. 100k free users sending 10 emails each/day = $35,000/day revenue to WRAPmail
- 3. 1M free users sending 10 emails each/day = $350,000/day revenue to WRAPmail
(1M users would represent <1% of total LinkedIn users)
We have no estimate whether and when these targets will be met, but we believe that this LinkedIn auto-WRAP solution could easily start feeding on itself as new signups let their LinkedIn friend know about WRAPmail.
WRAPmail will set aside a minimum of 10% of its advertising revenue to share with its free users with its goal that all free users make money every time they send an email.
Furthermore, WRAPmail helps search for missing children with every email sent by free users by incorporating an RSS feed from the Center for Missing and Exploited Children – see Huffington Post article by clicking here.
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IMS Health and Quintiles are now IQVIA
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Healthcare is an industry designed to help humans. As a global community, we continuously invest and commit to advancing human health. To deliver value and real outcomes. To rise to the challenge to find the next breakthrough by making the most of increasingly limited resources.
We are inspired by the potential and propelled by the possibilities. We share the vision to drive healthcare forward. To see how we can help accelerate progress and achievements. Others are developing these medical breakthroughs. We do our part by using breakthroughs in insights, technology and human intelligence to reimagine and deliver ways to help make them a reality.
It's bigger than better clinical trials. Or advances in technologies and analytics. Or faster insights. It's about exploring a new path to better health outcomes via Human Data Science. It's about harnessing the power of the IQVIA CORE? to channel the insights, commercial and scientific depth, and executional expertise that drive maximum value for our customers.
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Taidje Khan wrote:Excuse me, but would you mind speaking English?
Non, absolument NON...Prennez votre bicyclette Anglais!
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Zankou 2.0 wrote:~NoodleDemon~ wrote:Bon derriere.
There, I said it.
I said that yesterday, and got some very questionable results, in fact.
Good behind?
That was terrible.
"Vous avez un gentil cul" translates directly as "You have a nice ass," but "cul" is usually offensive.
Derriere is usually the term for butt, so "Votre derriere est trés jolie" is "your behind is very pretty."
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Sea Monsters Don't Exist; Are You Going to Believe Science-Or Your Lying Eyes?
This is an armored sea creature washed up on a beach. This creature's history is a bit murky It's reported to have washed up on a South African Beach in 1931, but since this is a color photograph that's unlikely to be the case. If anyone has additional information we'd be glad to receive it. We note that it appears to look very much like a Mosasaur, an armord sea creature supposedly extinct millins of years ago.
"Mosasaurs breathed air and were powerful swimmers that were well-adapted to living in the warm, shallow epicontinental seas prevalent during the Late Cretaceous Period. Mosasaurs were so well adapted to living in shallow epicontinental seas that they gave birth to live young, rather than return to the shore, as sea turtles do, to lay eggs.
The smallest-known Mosasaur was Carinodens belgicus, which was about 3 to 3.5 m long and probably lived in shallow waters near shore, cracking mollusks and sea urchins with its bulbous teeth. Larger mosasaurs were more typical: mosasaurs ranged in size up to 17 m: Hainosaurus holds the record for longest mosasaur, at 17.5 m. (50 feet)
Mosasaurs had a body shape similar to that of modern-day monitor lizards (varanids), but were more elongated and streamlined for swimming.
Their limb bones were reduced in length and their paddles were formed by webbing between their elongated digit-bones.
Their tails were broad and supplied the locomotor power. This method of locomotion may have been similar to that used by the conger eel or sea snakes today. The animal may have lurked and pounced rapidly and powerfully on passing prey, rather than hunting for it.
Mosasaurs had a double-hinged jaw and flexible skull (much like that of a snake), which enabled them to gulp down their prey almost whole, a snakelike habit that has helped identify the unmasticated gut contents fossilized within mosasaur skeletons.
A skeleton of Tylosaurus proriger from South Dakota included remains of the diving seabird Hesperornis, a marine bony fish, a possible shark and another, smaller mosasaur (Clidastes). Mosasaur bones have also been found with shark teeth embedded in them"....Wikipedia
Comparison of mosasaur with washed up remains of "unknown creature"
The Isle of Barra "Creature"
|This is an sea creature that washed up on a beach on the Isle of Barra in Scotland in 1961. Reportedly, a scientist eventually identified the creature as a beaked whale, although that explanation fails to account for the creature's apparent long neck. We noted the similarity between the photo of this dead creature and that of several "live" sea monsters.
Comparison of Barra Isle carcass with: Top, Frank Searles Lock Ness photos; 1972-74 and Bottom: Nahuelito photos from 2006.
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Neighbors fired up over proposed animal shelter
Nearly 200 people sign petition to stop Sallisaw shelter
Some neighbors are getting fired up over one city's plan to move their old animal shelter and build a new one near a residential community.
A group of neighbors are fighting the city of Sallisaw and its leaders from the shelter in their neighborhood.
However, city officials said Monday that they've already bought the land.
"I allow my daughter to ride her bike on my property. With this facility coming in I cannot allow that to happen," resident Ted Taylor told the council Monday night.
Residents spoke out about the proposed Eppler Avenue facility during the council's Monday night meeting.
"The city hasn't designated any funds for the construction, but we'll listen to their concerns and try to address it the best we can and we'll go from there," Sallisaw mayor Shannon Vann said.
The mayor said the city held numerous public meetings addressing the location of the animal shelter.
Neighbors said they are concerned about the smells, safety and noise of an animal shelter being built on their block.
"No way am I going to have an animal shelter this close to my family, to my neighborhood and to my residents of Eppler," Taylor said.
When asked if she would be concerned about a shelter moving close to her home, Vann said, "It would not bother me as far as location, actually to me. The ones I've been associated with or have seen and they're constructed properly/managed properly. The outside is no different than any other building you would have."
Despite the assurances from city officials, the plan is still not sitting well with some people.
"We are the taxpayers, we pay their salaries. We are property owners. We have a right to say what we want and where we want it. It is not their job to tell us that they're going to do this," resident Mary Baker said.
No time frame has been set for the construction of the shelter.
The mayor said it's up to the commissioners to decide if it wants to take action on the neighbor's concerns.
Almost 200 people have signed a petition asking the city to rethink plans to build a shelter.


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There may be no beloved LA institution that is more detested by the fooderati than Pink's, the famous hotdog stand on La Brea and Melrose. I may be the last foodie to defend Pink's but defend it I will. The meat, while good, may not be as good as Carney's, the fries not as good as Skooby's, but the overall dog experience is grand.
The Pink's dog has a nice, mild flavor with an excellent snap. The buns, steamed in their bags, cling to the dog in a way that a toasted bun never does. In fact, the steamed buns may be the thing that makes the Pink's dog what it is. I always think toasted hotdog buns taste stale and don't sufficiently mesh with the dog, but with the steamed Pink's bun, the dog and bun combine into a single, glorious meat-bread entity.
Pink's may be known for its wide variety of add-ons and weird celebrity influenced dogs, but when it comes to dogs, I'm all for simplicity...which means no guacamole, chili, bacon, pastrami, cheese or other non-dog indulgences. Maybe kraut, maybe onions, but more often than not, only mustard graces my dog, and that is the proper way to enjoy Pink's.
I also like the fries and onion rings which, reconstituted from their frozen state by the frier, have a nice crisp skin.
Is it worth the giant lines you'll find on a Friday night? It is definitively not. That's why I typically pick up a 10:00 am breakfast dog, barely any wait at all. Breakfast of champions, indeed.
Sunday, October 12, 2008
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Well then. How was that for timing??
And to think I didn't check the weather (most unlike me) until the day I was coming to New York.
Rather incredible to be in the belly of the beast, so to speak, for "The Storm of the Century". To be honest, although it was ferociously windy and raining up here on the upper east side of Manhattan, we were very lucky as we never lost power. The hotel I'm staying in is very cozy. They kept guests regularly updated on the impending storm, distributed flashlights and apologized that room service and housekeeping would be on a limited basis only. They warned that in the case of a power outage the elevators would not be working. Which basically meant it would take the same amount of time it usually does to get down from the 15th floor in this charming but old building.
They also slid a letter under the doors assuring the bar downstairs would remain open 🙂
All public transportation was shut down by 7pm Sunday night while through the day and into Monday the city, dripping with Halloween decorations, awaited the sinister storm. Sunday afternoon the streets were eerily quiet. I popped out and walked down to the "Archivia Bookstore" to see Heather Clawson from "Habitually Chic" and pick up her new book (which is fab and will post about soon) Then, with plenty of forewarning from hyperventilating weatherpersons, I picked up as many last minute provisions as would fit in my mini bar and with nothing else to do really, I put on the television and waited…
A most surreal Halloween weekend
My NY Son's apartment in lower Manhattan lost power, as did most of the lower part of the city. Thankfully we were able to be in constant contact via cell phones and his building, a very old one, sits high off the street so while dark, it stayed dry. Not so dry was the bar next door to his place which also remained open. Neighbors brought a boom box and by the glow of candlelight the locals watched the storm lash by outside.
My son's girlfriend and their friends found a cozy spot in lower Manhattan to wait out the storm
Ground Zero last night
Probably the biggest story of the night must have been the loss of power at NYU Hospital, followed by complete generator failure, resulting in over 200 patients, including tiny ICU babies having to be evacuated to other hospitals throughout the city all night long. The efforts of the hospital staff and emergency relief teams certainly left me lump-throated and teary eyed. God bless those people.
Not quite sure how my son is going to get to work tomorrow as he takes the subway…
For all those in New Jersey, all along the coast and lower Manhattan, and they are millions, who've suffered power outages and water damage I truly hope that life will get back to normal for you very soon. No doubt the damage and disruption to life here in NY is going to be felt for weeks if not months to come.
photo via Habitually Chic
But if any city in the world is great at bouncing back, God knows it's New York.


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EVENT: Strides for Leadership 2017
Leadership Lorain County is proud to announce the third annual Strides for Leadership Fun Walk and 5K Run on Sunday, May 7, 2017. Promoting health and wellness in Lorain County each year the proceeds from this event go to a different nonprofit organization with a similar mission and goals. Organizations receiving support previously include the Lorain County Free Clinic and the Cribs for Kids Program. Proceeds from the 2017 event will benefit Primary Purpose Center and Recovery Services. Based on the principles of Alcoholic Anonymous, Primary Purpose Center provides residential recovery services to both men and women.
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In 2016, more people in the state of Ohio died from unintentional drug overdoses than motor vehicle accidents. According to the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, Ohio also has the grim distinction of leading the nation in opiate related deaths. The mission of Primary Purpose Center is to provide quality sober living while assisting individuals to make lasting changes in their lives and to become productive and participating members of the community. Although the centers are located in Lorain County, individuals do not have to reside in Lorain County to participate in the program. Your support is needed and greatly appreciated.
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WATCH: Foo Fighters Perform Christmas Medley On Saturday Night Live
It's almost time for Christmas, and nothing gets people in the spirit quite like a good holiday tune. While they were guests on Saturday Night Live last Saturday, Foo Fighters gave the audience a treat with a holiday medley of their own. Check out the exciting and merry performance after the jump! For more Foo Fighters, you can purchase a concert ticket here or buy a CD here! Please follow and like us:Read More


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LDL stands for low-density lipoprotein. It's also sometimes called "bad" cholesterol. Lipoproteins are made of fat and protein. They carry cholesterol, triglycerides, and other fats, called lipids, in the blood to various parts of the body.
This article discusses the blood test to measure the level of LDL cholesterol in your blood. Too much LDL in the blood can clog arteries.
See also:
Low-density lipoprotein test
Blood is typically drawn from a vein, usually from the inside of the elbow or the back of the hand. The site is cleaned with germ-killing medicine (antiseptic). The health care provider wraps an elastic band around the upper arm to apply pressure to the area and make the vein swell with blood.
Next, the health care provider gently inserts a needle into the vein. The blood collects into an airtight vial or tube attached to the needle. The elastic band is removed from your arm.
Once the blood has been collected, the needle is removed, and the puncture site is covered to stop any bleeding.
In infants or young children, a sharp tool called a lancet may be used to puncture the skin and make it bleed. The blood collects into a small glass tube called a pipette, or onto a slide or test strip. A bandage may be placed over the area if there is any bleeding.
You will usually be told not to eat or drink anything for 9 - 12 hours before the test.
The health care provider may tell you to stop taking certain drugs before the procedure.
When the needle is inserted to draw blood, you may feel moderate pain, or only a prick or stinging sensation. Afterward, there may be some throbbing.
This test is usually done to determine your risk for heart disease. The LDL test is usually done as part of a lipid panel, which also checks total cholesterol, HDL, and triglyceride levels.
LDL carries cholesterol to various tissues throughout the body. Too much LDL, commonly called "bad cholesterol," is linked to cardiovascular disease. The lower your LDL, the lower your risk for heart disease or stroke.
A healthy LDL level is one that falls in the optimal or near-optimal range.
Note: Normal value ranges may vary slightly among different laboratories. Talk to your doctor about the meaning of your specific test results.
High levels of LDL may be associated with:
Lower than normal levels of LDL may be caused by:
Additional conditions under which the test may be performed:
Veins and arteries vary in size from one patient to another and from one side of the body to the other. Obtaining a blood sample from some people may be more difficult than from others.
Other risks associated with having blood drawn are slight but may include:
Expert Panel on Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Cholesterol in Adults. Executive summary of the third report of the National Cholesterol Education Program (NCEP) expert panel on detection, evaluation, and treatment of high blood cholesterol in adults (Adult Treatment Panel III). JAMA. 2001;285:2486-2497. Updated 2004.
U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. Screening for lipid disorders in adults: U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommendation statement. Rockville (MD): Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ); 2008 Jun.
Semenkovich CF. Disorders of lipid metabolism. In: Goldman L, Ausiello D, eds. Cecil Medicine. 23rd ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2007:chap 217.
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etnies Releases The Marana
Today, the Much-Hyped Ryan Sheckler Skate Shoe is Available at etnies Retailers Around the World
Lake Forest, CA – As seen previously only on Instagram and etnies pro skateboarder Ryan Sheckler's feet during X Games, Street League and other key 2012 skate events around the world, the etnies Marana has finally arrived. Available at etnies retailers all over the globe, the Marana, Ryan Sheckler's latest skate shoe, was designed piece by piece, to blend strength and style. The Marana features an STI Evolution Foam™ midsole, a non-slip grip outsole and an injected rubber toe cap, making it the longest lasting shoe Ryan has ever skated. You can watch Ryan skate the Marana and explain the story behind the new style here: etni.es/introducingthemarana
Ryan Sheckler said: "I've been putting up photos on Instagram since I started skating the Marana's and kids are freaking out because they want them so bad. Now they're available and I want kids to have these. It's amazing how long you can skate this shoe. They don't rip, the toe cap doesn't wear down and it's the best jumping shoe I've ever had. It's just an all-around solid skate shoe."
The etnies Marana technology breakdown:
STI Evolution Foam™ – The innovatively crafted STI Evolution Foam™ molded midsoles in the Marana replaces your typical EVA, PU and heavy rubber with a durable, abrasion-resistant, ultra-lightweight and high-impact rebound cushioning foam. Its molecular build is resistant to abrasion and has a high-impact rebound quality so it won't pack out when landing hard. Plus, STI Evolution Foam™ enhances the cushioning and comfort of the footbed and noticeably decreases the weight of the shoe.
Non-Slip Grip Outsole – Created with a thick herringbone tread with deep grooves, the Marana outsole has an insane grip and just doesn't wear down with all the abuse skateboarding puts it through.
Injected Rubber Toe Cap – The Marana toe cap is fused-on with injected rubber and has no stitching making it super hard to wear through, no matter what your skate style is.
For more details and dissected photography on the Marana design, visit the new Marana product page on etnies.com.
Available now for US$75 (€80 / £60), the Marana comes in the red/white Ryan has been seen wearing this year as well as an all-black color. The new performance shoe can be found at etnies.com and etnies retailers around the globe.
Get caught up with Ryan in this full written interview, complete with a photo spread and Under Our Feet Tour: Europe video, posted on etni.es/marana--sheckler.
For more information on the etnies Marana, visit etnies.com or keep up with the brand on facebook.com/etnies.


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"Girls Gone Wild" founder Joe Francis pleaded guilty Wednesday in Los Angeles federal court to filing false tax returns and bribing Nevada jail workers in exchange for food.
The plea agreement, which is subject to approval by U.S. District Judge S. James Otero, states Francis will pay $250,000 in restitution, $10,000 in fines and receive credit for the 301 days he spent in jail. He will also receive a year of supervised release, according to court papers.
"Be on your best behavior," Otero told Francis, reminding him that the plea agreement was conditional upon the judge's approval.
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"I'll try to stay out of the nightclubs," Francis responded, referring to a recent series of late-night antics that have been discussed on various celebrity gossip Web sites.
After questioning by Otero, Francis admitted he under-reported nearly $563,000 on his corporate tax returns.
The adult-video entrepreneur also acknowledged giving more than $5,000 in goods to a pair of Washoe County, Nev., jail workers in exchange for food while he was being held there from June 2007 to March 2008.
The guilty pleas came just weeks before Francis' much-delayed trial was set to begin.
The 36-year-old USC graduate pleaded not guilty last summer to charges of unlawfully deducting more than $20 million in bogus business expenses on his 2002 and 2003 returns. If the case had gone to trial, Francis faced amaximum of 10 years in federal prison.
Otero set sentencing for Nov. 16.
Francis is also being sued in state court by an interior designer who alleges he was threatened by the "Girls Gone Wild" founder for agreeing to cooperate in the federal tax evasion probe.


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Noah Pozner, the youngest victim of the tragedy in Newtown, Connecticut, was just six years old when he was killed last month in a hail of bullets at Sandy Hook Elementary School — an occurrence so incomprehensible that even the passage of the better part of a month makes it difficult to type those words.
Few details about the mechanics of the horror have been disclosed for obvious reasons, but the mother of Noah Pozner has commented on the singularly nightmarish experience of viewing and identifying her little boy's body — and while it is likely one of the more difficult things you will read for some time, it also feels like Americans owe it to Veronique Pozner to listen and bear witness to her account of Noah's death and the wounds he sustained in the course of the attack.
In the wake of the Newtown school shooting, Americans have been locked in a fierce debate about the ethics and constitutionality of guns in the US, and many have been accused of "politicizing" the tragedy in order to further their own agendas.
But when the dust settles and the controversy merchants move on, we are left with the utterly senseless deaths of 20 six and seven-year-old children, first graders, and six of their teachers. And there's something to be said about viewing the incident without the veneer of teddy bear memorials and celebrity-studded versions of "Hallelujah," seeing it for what it is — a violent act that was both brutal and preventible, a violent act that the parents of Noah Pozner as well as the 19 other children murdered must face every day until the day they themselves die.
When the shock of the Newtown shooting was still fresh, CNN commentator Roland Martin suggested that a parent of one of the children gunned down perhaps mirror the actions of Mamie Till, mother of slain black teenager Emmett Till.
Emmett's mother changed history when she released a photo of her son's body, shocking America and galvanizing the civil rights movement, despite an outcry from those who insisted no more middle ground could be had. She later explained:
"There was just no way I could describe what was in that box… No way. And I just wanted the world to see."
Martin admits the idea is shocking to the point of being nearly unspeakable, but he counters that the alternative — pretending the worst parts of the trauma did not occur — is perhaps more obscene, more morally lax and more inexcusable:
"Our senses have been dulled to the real world carnage. We demand that news organizations not show American troops, or even the enemy, lying dead in war zones. Even when our troops returned home in flag-draped coffins, the Bush administration forbade it from being covered by the media. The Los Angeles Times was ripped by readers for showing the bloody, lifeless body of Ambassador Christopher Stevens being dragged out of a building in Benghazi, Libya."
Jewish Daily Forward posted a column by journalist Naomi Zeveloff, who spoke with Veronique Pozner about Noah's death and the days that followed. Zeveloff details her struggle with publishing the information she was given by Mrs. Pozner — but ultimately concludes the grieving parent hoped to illustrate in facts and difficult truths what the "angels in heaven" narrative so thoroughly conceals.
At the start of the piece, Zeveloff quotes Pozner as she describes asking Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy to view Noah's open casket — Veronique Pozner explains, heartbreakingly, how she hoped that if the time ever came to pass legislation on the factors that led to her son's death, Gov. Malloy would be able to place a face and a person with the decision:
"I needed it to have a face for him… If there is ever a piece of legislation that comes across his desk, I needed it to be real for him."
Later in the discussion, Zeveloff explains that Noah's mom described, without prompting, the state of his remains when she viewed them, saying:
"We all saw how beautiful he was. He had thick, shiny hair, beautiful long eyelashes that rested on his cheeks. He looked like he was sleeping. But the reality of it was under the cloth he had covering his mouth there was no mouth left. His jaw was blown away. I just want people to know the ugliness of it so we don't talk about it abstractly, like these little angels just went to heaven. No. They were butchered. They were brutalized. And that is what haunts me at night."
Zeveloff asks Pozner how she came to make the decision to view Noah's body, and what tears at your soul about it is the essence of her statement — because who among us would not feel the exact same way?
Veronique Pozner replied:
"I owed it to him as his mother, the good, the bad, the ugly… It is not up to me to say I am only going to look at you and deal with you when you are alive, that I am going to block out the reality of what you look like when you are dead. And as a little boy, you have to go in the ground. If I am going to shut my eyes to that I am not his mother. I had to bear it. I had to do it."
Indeed, in those two exchanges, it seems the crux of the issue is clear — Veronique Pozner made the difficult choice to view Noah's body after he had been shot multiple times at close range because she owed it to him, as his mother, to know.
And it seems that regardless of where you stand on any of the issues stirred up by the tragic violence in Newtown, we all owe it to the surviving families to hear not just the uplifting stories of togetherness and bravery after the Sandy Hook shootings, but the unvarnished facts of the situation as well. The six-year-old boy who was shot not only in the face in his first-grade classroom, but an additional ten times as well.
It seems a small thing for the parents who lost a child in Newtown to have our attention so we can hear what it is that they want to say, and we should all at the very least give them that, regardless of how incredibly difficult it may be to hear, read or see. Perhaps Roland Martin was half right — because after reading Veronique Pozner's statements, maybe we don't need to see a picture. Perhaps if all Americans read those words and listened, imagery would be unnecessary.
But we the adults that failed in protecting those children at Sandy Hook should not be spared from knowing what happened, and making an informed decision as to how to prevent it the best we can from ever happening again.


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Locarno Travel Guide
A branch line heads west from Bellinzona (whose three superb castles are on UNESCO's World Heritage list) to Locarno. It's a charming town on Lake Maggiore, its piazzas overhung by subtropical shrubbery. Overrun with the rich and wannabe-famous on summer weekends and during its world-class film festival (early August), it manages to retain a sun-drenched cool.
The Piazza Grande, where exquisitely groomed locals parade on warm summer nights, is near the lake, with the Renaissance Old Town rising gently behind. The fifteenth-century church of Madonna del Sasso is an impressive ochre vision high on a crag. It's a glorious walk up (or down); or take the funicular from just west of the station to Ticino's greatest photo-op, looking down on the church and lake.
From the top station, a cable car climbs steeply to Cardada, amid fragrant pine woods with walking routes; a spectacular chairlift whisks you further up to Cimetta, where the restaurant terrace offers a view you won't forget in a hurry.
A short bus ride east of Locarno is Valle Verzasca, where you can re-enact the opening of the James Bond film Goldeneye by bungee-jumping a world-record 220m off the Verzasca Dam – in July & August, you can jump by moonlight.
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Students and faculty stand on a playing field outside Marysville-Pilchuck HS.(@deanrutz /ST) http://t.co/Q5V683MvD3 pic.twitter.com/GPwjg0Mzj7— Seattle Times Photo (@SeaTimesPhoto) October 24, 2014
Terror seized a school campus this morning when at 10:45 AM, a lone gunman opened fire at Marysville-Pilchuck High School in Washington State, shooting 5 students and killing 1 before turning the gun on himself. Of the 4 injured students, 3 are in critical condition.
Students initially believed the incident to be a fire drill until teachers herded students into classrooms due to the gunfire. The shooting began in the cafeteria. According to witnesses, the shooter was allegedly angry that a girl wouldn't go out with him. The girl in question was among those shot. However, the motive has not been officially confirmed. The scene was "pandemonium", according to The Seattle Times, as students scrambled to doors and over fences to escape.
The gunman, who was a student at the school, has not had his identity released at this time.
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Film Fest Round 3 Winner
December 7, 2012 4:30pm
Round 3 of the GoPro/Racer X Amateur Film Fest featured another close battle, this one between Chris Barnes and Kory Bard. In the end, Chris Barnes pulled in the most votes and will therefore be heading to the finals. He did it with this video, while Kory put up a great showing with this effort.
Congrats to both guys for making it this far, and good luck to Chris in the finals, where he'll have a shot at bragging rights and some killer prizes from GoPro, Unit, and of course, Racer X.


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NEW YORK – Major League Soccer today announced the list of players eligible for selection in the 2010 MLS Re-Entry Process. The Stage 1 Draft of the Re-Entry Process will take place on Wednesday, December 8, at 2 p.m. ET via teleconference. The Stage 2 Draft will take place on Wednesday, December 15, at 2 p.m. ET. All 18 clubs will have a representative participate.
Both Stage 1 and Stage 2 Drafts will be conducted in the same order as the traditional Waiver Draft, with Vancouver selecting 17th and Portland selecting 18th.
Each club may either select a player from the eligible player list, or pass. Once a team has passed, they may no longer participate in that stage of the Re-Entry Process. Each stage will continue until all18 clubs have passed on the available players.
- CLICK HERE to see the eligible players
Clubs must exercise the option for, or extend a Bona Fide Offer to, players selected in Stage 1. Players that were out of contract may either accept or reject the Bona Fide Offer. Should a player reject the offer, the drafting club will hold the right of first refusal for that player in MLS. Players with option years left on their contract will automatically be added to the drafting club's roster.
Any player selected in Stage 1 will remain on the drafting Club's 2011 budget at the option price or Bona Fide Offer price until April 1, 2011. Clubs and players may not mutually renegotiate that price to a lower number until April 1, 2011.
Clubs may not select their own players in Stage 1. Players will have the opportunity to negotiate contracts and sign with their previous clubs after Stage 1 is complete through 2 p.m. ET on December 13.
In Stage 2, clubs may select from players that are under contract and those not under contract. If a player is not under contract, the drafting club will be required to make a genuine offer to the player within seven days. In the event that an agreement cannot be reached between the drafting club and an out-of-contract player, the drafting club will hold the right of first refusal for that player in MLS. Clubs may select their own players in Stage 2 only after all other clubs have declined to select those players.
If a player is not selected in either stage of the Re-Entry Process, that player will be available on a first come first serve basis to all clubs.
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The Re-Entry Draft order is the same as the Waiver Draft order and follows below:
- D.C. United
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- New England Revolution
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Who hasn't begged Mom and Dad to let them take a roadtrip over a summer weekend to catch their favorite bands or been thrilled to see multiple artists performing on the same bill? And what great artist hasn't packed up the van and festival-hopped across the country, hitting Lollapalooza and Pitchfork in Chicago or Bonnaroo in Tennessee or Coachella in California?
But it's not just the artists and audiences that benefit. A music festival injects life into a town, if just for a weekend, as fans flock from across the state or country to camp, bands book up hotels and restaurants, and the local music industry is jolted to its core. For Charlottesville, the rise of area and regional festivals has added depth to an already ambitious music scene.
"We're at the beginning of something very exciting," says Michael Allenby, who launched The Festy Experience last summer in Nelson County. "There's killer infrastructure," he says. "At this point, it's up to the artist to push the scene."
From the Festy, which took place at the Devil's Backbone Brewery, and the ever-popular Crozet Music Festival, to the Dave Matthews Caravan in New Jersey and Camp Barefoot in West Virginia, music festivals have put spark in the regional music scene. We survey eight festivals coming your way in 2011 and chat with seven festival-minded artists.The Festivals Crozet Music FestivalCrozetTBA, Octobercrozetmusicfestival.comThe Crozet Music Festival is classic Charlottesville, from the setting at the Misty Mountain Camp Resort to the participating artists – past favorite have included Alligator, William Walter, Mariana Bell, and The Sometime Favorites. Three days of folk, rock, and bluegrass, in the heart of Crozet– what more can you ask for?Keep your eye out for: Full schedule to be released. Camp BarefootBartow, West VirginiaAugust 18-20campbarefoot.orgThis West Virginia festival combines three stages, arts and crafts showcases, and events for kids into one rollicking weekend. The fifth annual festival aims to promote independent artists as well as appeal to families, and a portion of the proceeds go to the local Humane Society. This year's festival will include a VIP pre-show and camping period, so buying tickets early might be smart.Keep your eye out for: Perpetual Groove, William Walter & Co., DJ Williams Projekt, Kings of Belmont Campout EastCrozetJune 17-18campouteast.comThe first Campout East is yet another festival in the Crozet area– but never fear, fans of the Crozet Music Festival, this one promises to bring diverse interests and music to the scene. Featuring art and food alongside artists like Sons of Bill, Cracker, and Camper Van Beethoven (the three festival co-hosts), this summer festival will add a little zing to Crozet while we wait for the fall festivals.Keep your eye out for: Sons of Bill and Those Darlins Down By The RiverRoanokeMay 13-14downbytheriver.orgThis two-night festival, tucked away in Roanoke, is full of all-around fun for the whole family. From kid's events and arts and crafts to on-site camping and open fields for dancing and carousing, Down By The River is just that: frolicking and live music near the banks of the Roanoke River. Performers range from nationally renowned indie artists to regional rock talent.Keep your eye out for: Neko Case and Manassas acoustic folk band Momentary Prophets. Dave Matthews Band CaravanAtlantic City, New JerseyJune 24-26DMBCaravan.com Wasn't this supposed to be the summer the mega-successful Charlottesville-based band stayed home? It turns out that DMB will anchor four three-day festivals across the country. Cohorts include experimental bands, indie-folk-pop artists, and any other genre you'd associate with the Dave Matthews brand. Most of the line-up are big name acts, many of whom have stopped by Cville on their own tours through the years, so that might make the trek to Atlantic City (other stops are New York, Chicago, and Washington state) well worth the effort.Keep your eye out for: The Flaming Lips (Charlottesville Pavilion favorites), O.A.R., Dr. Dog, Thievery Corporation, Grace Potter and the Nocturnals, Carolina Chocolate Drops, Fitz and the Tantrums, and, of course, the Dave and the boys. The Festy ExperienceRoseland, Nelson CountyOctober 7-9thefesty.comThe Festy is more than just a music festival– it's an outdoor adventure with on-property camping (beginning on Thursday, before the music starts), a 5K/10K trail run race, and the Devil's Backbone Challenge mountain bike race. And, of course, three full days of bluegrass, folk, and rock at the Devil's Backbone Brewery. "It's the outdoor experience you wouldn't get in a club or amphitheater," says Festy producer Michael Allenby. The brainchild of the members of the jambandy bluegrass ensemble The Infamous Stringdusters, the Festy is a carefully curated mix of gold-standard music, raucous personalities, and high-energy performers.Keep your eye out for: The Festy has not released its full lineup, but look for Carl Anderson and Love Canon to be among the local performers. FloydFestFloydJuly 28-30floydfest.comFloydFest X, as festival promoters are dubbing it, presents the best bluegrass, indie rock, and folk of the past decade as the this southwestern Virginia mainstay hits its 10-year anniversary. Known for rowdy and diverse line-ups as well as a picturesque Blue Ridge setting, FloydFest attracts national acts, regional favorites, and even some kitschy side shows– trapeze, anyone? Keep your eye out for: Old Crow Medicine Show, Carolina Chocolate Drops, Larry Keel & Natural Bridge, William Walter & Co., Toma Que Toma, Morwenna Lasko and Jay Pun Rooster Walk 3Martinsville, VirginiaMay 27-28roosterwalk.comNow in its third year, Rooster Walk brings together more than 20 bands for two days of roots rock, folk, and soul. Voted one of the best regional festivals by the Roanoke Times, the Rooster Walk donates all proceeds to the Penn-Shank Memorial Scholarship Fund at Martinsville High School.Keep your eye out for: Gunchux and Kings of Belmont
The Bands (in their own words)
GunchuxBand love story: Rob was playing with the Nice Jenkins, and Chad and Tucker were holding it down with Butterhouse. We played together a couple of times, and Gunchux was formed.Pre-show warm-up: Generally, we like to loosen up with a beer or glass of wine and take a moment to think about the poor faces we're about to melt away.On-stage presence: We try to let the music speak for itself –Adam Long.Highlight of 2010: Rooster Walk 2– a lot of great people and a lot of great music. Our highlight of 2011 will be our album release in a couple of weeks…Favorite festival experience: Smaller festivals like Rooster Walk are awesome, but, man, Bonnaroo will knock your head off. –Tucker TitusBest thing ever said about your band: I can't believe I just saw you in a bar. You should be playing in front of thousands of people. –Rob Cheatham.Creepiest groupie moment: Well, we're all married, so we don't really deal. We do, however, get offered free weed on a regular basis. –Tucker TitusA piano, tambourine, or hand clap makes any song better.Four albums we'd need on a desert island: Jeff Beck, Blow by Blow; Radiohead, The Bends; Audio book on "How to Get Rescued From a Desert Island for Dummies"; 311, TransistorWhy are music festivals so important to the local music scene? A ton of music? Camping with friends? New bands on the main stage? Oh– and a ton of music? What isn't important about music festivals?Morwenna Lasko and Jay PunBand love story: We met in 2003 during the last semester at Berklee College of Music in Boston. We were in two cultural classes together– "Music of India" and "Intercultural Communications," which kind of illustrates the kind of music we make.Why Cville? Cville's a great home base for us– we can tour up and down the East Coast and then come back here and still feel like we have normal lives. Also, Peter Chang's restaurant is here.Pre-show warm-up: A nice five-mile run on a day we play ensures great energy and positive vibes for an amazing performance. –Morwenna.I'm usually running around making sure everything is in order, but I'd love to have at least 15-30 minutes before we play to listen to music that inspires both of us. –Jay.On-stage presence: Very focused, meticulous, professional, heartfelt. We enjoy taking our listeners on a musical journey.Highlight of 2010: Back in November, we played at The Frontier Cafe in Brunswick, Maine, where I got to share the stage with my dad and was honored to have Ned Steinberger (the maker of my five-string electric violin) in the audience. –Morwenna.We played The Festy with our quartet this past October, which was one of the best times we've had as a band. –Jay.Favorite festival experience: Before we started playing venues and festivals, the Horizons of Rock Developing Everywhere Tour was my introduction to the festival scene– it was so cool to see bands all day long and see so many people coming together because of music. –Jay. Best thing ever said about your band: Mary Monsieur of FloydFest said, "When you play, I think angels dance."Craziest groupie moment: We played a festival in Kansas this past summer, and one of our new fans surprised us with some fried alligator! Considering Morwenna is a pescatarian, we thought it was a pretty funny gift– the rest of us had to try and finish it even though it was some tough meat! An upright bass and a singing K9 make any song better.Three albums we'd need on a desert island: U2, Joshuatreeachtungbaby; Pierre Bensusan, Solilai; Joni Mitchell, HejiraWhy are music festivals so important to the local music scene? They're a great way for bands to plant seeds of their music, meet other musicians, and reach new audiences. It's also a wonderful way to create a buzz outside the band's place of origin.Toma Que TomaBand love story: I saw Peter performing at the University Chapel and was so excited to find a great flamenco and Latin guitarist after moving here from New York. I waited about six months before giving him a call. We started practicing together, and over the last seven years the group has grown to what it is today. –Kristi O'Brien.Why Cville? It's small and yet loaded with music and art. You can get an "urban fix" or a "nature fix" in an easy day trip. –Kristen Eberly.Where else is there? –Tracy Verkerke.Pre-show warm-up: Stretching, set of technical exercises, then get the belly full with Maya deliciousness. –Berto Sales.Food, wine, stretches, scales, a little joking around to create a certain relaxed vibe, then– bam!– come out swinging. –Peter Richardson. On-stage presence: Relaxed, house-party fun, with attitude and passion.Highlight of 2010: Performing at Maya Restaurant every other Thursday. What we do has become about the community that comes out to see us and sit in regularly and not just about what we bring– that's really what flamenco is all about.Favorite festival experience: The Mercado Cultural in Salvador, Brazil– an international festival with talent from all over the world on stages and theaters throughout the city for one week– inspirational! –Berto and Madeline Sales.Best thing ever said about your band: I was in Sneak Reviews wearing our t-shirt, and a guy said, "Toma que Toma, that's a great band."–Tracy.Creepiest groupie moment: I had someone grab my hand while I was playing, because he didn't like my guitar playing. –Peter.We love it when people from the audience dance, but one time a well-endowed lady with a short skirt shook it a little too close to my face. –Jorge Carrizosa.An electric bass and solid groove make any song better.Three albums we'd need on a desert island: Bari, Ojos de Brujo; Jose Merce, Del Amanecer; Gerardo Nunez, JucalWhy are music festivals so important to the local music scene anyway? You might go to see three bands and come away having discovered ten.
Carl AndersonMusic love story: I remember in seventh grade, my friend across the street played guitar and taught me a few chords. I got a band together, played a talent show, and I was hooked. The idea of doing it for a living is very romantic to me.Why Cville? It's a known fact that Charlottesville is a great place for music. It's also central to quite a few other major markets– NYC, Philly, NC, SC.Pre-show warm-up: Relaxing with a few good tunes on the iPod and enjoying a beer never hurt anybody.On-stage presence: It's really important to make the audience comfortable, and if that means making a couple of cheesy jokes, then so be it. I took my shirt off once– but that was a long time ago.Highlight of 2010: The release of my first solo EP, 20 Something Blues. We had a great double release party at the Southern with Sam Wilson in February. I'm immensely proud of the work– it was a big step for me personally.Favorite festival experience: When I graduated from high school a friend and I drove out to Colorado for the Telluride Bluegrass festival. It was unbelievably beautiful, and the music was top notch.Best thing ever said about your music: Someone said I reminded them a bit of Tom Petty right after I'd watched the documentary Runnin' Down a Dream. While I didn't totally agree, I did feel pretty cool.Creepiest groupie moment: One time a girl called me from South Carolina out of the blue to tell me that she liked one of my songs. I was flattered, but mildly weirded-out just because I wasn't sure where she found my number.A harmony makes any song better.Three albums I'd need on a desert island: Anything by Justin BieberWhy are music festivals so important to the local music scene? They give exposure to the area and inspire people to play.Travis ElliottMusic love story: I've wanted to be a musician since the fifth grade– I'd record demo tapes and give them to my teachers. I hope none of them ever surface.Why Cville? I have not been asked to leave yet.Pre-show warm-up: Beer curl-ups– 1 and 2 and 3 and 4– throat-coat hot tea is great too!On-stage presence: I'm actually more nervous at hometown shows than the out-of-town shows because here it's mostly friends, and some of them make it very clear that they intend to judge me the entire time!Highlight of 2010: The iTunes "Indie Download of the Week" last year was great! I still get updates from people all over the world downloading Swan Dive!Favorite festival experience: My favorite thus far has to be FloydFest– going there to hear the musical diversity is very refreshing.Best thing ever said about your music: Friends getting speeding tickets listening to my CD is always nice to hear.Harmonies make any song better.Three albums I'd need on a desert island: Definitely the White Album (awesome because it's actually two CDs); Faith No More's Angel Dust (so dark and beautiful); maybe a blank CDR to record the experience of what it's like to be so totally screwed on a desert island.Why are music festivals so important to the local music scene? It really gives us something to look forward to all year.Sons of BillBand love story: Well, Sam, James, and Abe share parents, so they go way back. James and Seth met in our glory days at JT Henley Middle School. Abe and Todd and Seth met playing in bands around UVA in the early 2000s.Why Cville? It's one of the best places in live in the whole country.Pre-show warm-up: Make fun of Todd doing snare rolls on his practice pad. Tune up. Say a prayer. Hit the stage.On-stage presence: We're just ringleaders; the crowd is the main event.Highlight of 2010: Recording our third album with David Lowery at Sound of Music Studios in Richmond. Hopefully it'll be out this summer.Favorite festival experience: I went to one of the first Bonnaroos when I was about 19 or 20. It was crazy. I went to see Primus play the 2-5am show. I woke up lying on my back in the mud– I was stone sober, but had fallen asleep standing up from pure exhaustion. –Seth.Best thing ever said about your band: We got a guy through his divorce.Best groupie moment: We were playing South by Southwest in Austin, and some girl from Ohio shows up with a handmade "Joey's Arm" [a popular SofB song] t-shirt.A bass drum makes any song better.Three albums we'd need on a desert island: We would kill the boredom of being on a desert island by arguing about which albums we should have brought. If we compromised, it would be Exit 0 by Steve Earle, Darkness at the Edge of Town by Springsteen, and Tom Petty's Greatest Hits. Or maybe Metallica's Black Album– that's made a popular resurgence in the van recently.Why are music festivals so important to the local music scene? Music should be about community. That gets lost or diluted in the Internet age, but it just smacks you over the head when you're at a festival. And it's the best place to get drunk and sunburned without having to pretend you care about horse racing.
William Walter & CoBand love story: The usual– we all got really hammered one night and woke up together, with our instruments on, jamming out in our sleep. So it seemed natural to stay together after that. –Stuart Holme. I'm in love with Tucker's mom. –William Walter.Why Cville? It's a great place to be if you're interested in the arts, but what this area has to offer is far more than that in the way of organic local farms, wineries, and awareness of the handcrafted. It's just beautiful country. –Tucker Rogers.Pre-show warmup: Moving the equipment, PA, and lights to the stage. Definitely gets the blood flowing. –Stuart. Usually a shot and beer and a few minutes to hang out with all the players beforehand to lock in the vibe. –Tucker.On-stage presence: Honest, committed to the music much more so than the drama. If you want drama and theater, go see Lady Gaga. If you want to see some guys play great tunes and take them somewhere cool, come see us. –Stuart.Highlight of 2010: Stage right speaker stack toppled over by a crowd in Richmond and narrowly missed killing keyboard player Adam Silvers. –William.Favorite festival experience: FloydFest. It was laid-back, beautiful, and had plenty of reggae bands. To now be playing that festival is incredibly cool, fulfilling, and fun. –Stuart.Best thing ever said about your band: "It's good to hear a band like they used to be in the '70s." –Stuart. Someone said something good? –William.Best groupie moment: Woke up married. –William.An [acoustic] bass drum makes any song better.Three albums we'd need on a desert island: The last three live recordings so we could all listen to the mix. –William.Why are music festivals so important to the local music scene anyway? Because live music never goes out of style, gets old, or tries to be anything but what is right there in front of you. –Tucker.
Awesome article. It takes alot of talent to post festival information & write up a lame 11 question questonaire for bands to answer. Real in depth and I'm sure took a lot of time and this is the cover story? Maybe Garcia should stick to jumping over sticks & running through water.
Roosterwalk is in Martinsville, VIRGINIA. Not West Virginia. Big difference.
How embarrasing on the part of the Hook. Martinsville, home of Roosterwalk, is in Virginia, not West Virginia. Thanks! Janet
Please post the correction about the location of Rooster Walk.
The band is called Faith No More, not Faith with an album called "No More Angel Dust"... Really Hook?
once again you see the slop this paper puts out, I would like to see some true professionals start a good paper in this hick town


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Mudgee High School
Exit from Eden aims to reflect humanity's impact on the world throughout history and the negative repercussions that are associated with this. The women represent air, earth and water respectively. They intertwine and affect each other, while the delicate introduction of plastic bags and other industrial objects conveys the underlying threat. The use of negative space in the work suggests a void, subtly conveying the ominous future for humanity and its environment. This work aims to highlight the need for humans and nature to co-exist harmoniously in the world.
Influencing artists: Fiona Hall, Courtney Brims, Lorenzo Durán
How does Fiona Hall inform Josie McCarroll's art practice? In your opinion, has McCarroll been successful in showing Hall's influence as well as presenting her own individual style? Discuss.
What is your opinion of humanity's impact on the world? Research the art practice of Hall and other artists who have explored social and environmental issues. Present your findings as a slideshow to the class.


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Every aspect when building a car from the ground up is about the details. The sum of the parts you select as well as the level of the execution during final assembly will determine the overall quality once completed. No detail is too small, and when you're focusing on your business office, there are loads of minute areas that require lots of attention. In the case of Project Orange Krate, our '71 Camaro, the car received a custom-molded interior at some point in its life, which may have been bitchin in the day, but there was no way it would cut it in its drastically changed form: a purpose-built, hard-core track and street car. A change from its original boulevard cruiser demeanor to one that is infinitely more aggressive.
Since the majority of its original interior had either been modified or tossed by the last interior shop in favor of custom touches, it left us with pretty much an empty shell needing to be refreshed from every corner. For Peter Newell of Competition Specialties in Walpole, Massachusetts, it was time to create an interior that would give Orange Krate a fresh look while maintaining its original factory-born roots. It's no small feat to take on ordering a complete interior including every screw, washer, and mounting clip, but thanks to the team at Ground Up, Pete was able to source the majority of what he needed with a single phone call.
A few interior items remain to complete the installation, including reproduction dash vents and a killer stereo. Once received, Orange Krate's business office will be complete and ready for action.
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Hi all, it is Marion today and it is Monday again.
The start of a new week and what better way to start then
with giving you all some inspiration.
The image I used is Mothersday bees from Whiff of Joy.
I coloured the image with copics.
The text is from a sheet from Dutch Doobadoo.
I used distress paint around the tekst and on the hearts.
The heart is a nested die-light.
The other hearts are taken from a Dutch Dubadoo cardboard sheet and a pearl heart.
The white and pink brad are from Whiff of Joy.
I used a Bildmalarna paperpad.
I also used a flower from the Cards und More shop and halfpearls.
For an overview of my used products, please scroll down to the end of this post.
That is it from me today,
Wishiing you all a fab week and untill next time,
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Vanessa Grant, McCarthy Tetrault, kindly invited me to hear Gloria Steinem speak in Toronto. Gloria is an admirable person who has made a huge change in attitudes in society and I was excited to hear her speak and wondered what her message would be.
It was disappointing to hear her start with the right wing's attitude to women's reproduction. According to Gloria, the right wing only want hearth and home and sex is for the reproduction of the species, nothing more. This Footloose style attitude has certainly not stuck around in Canada and as I sat with a table of dynamic female lawyers, all partners at McCarthy, I wondered if Gloria's activist message no longer had the same urgency for North American women.
I also wondered if the American right wing did believe that sex was all around procreation. Quite the image painted by Gloria.


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As mentioned last week, the recently concluded inaugural Polytheist Leadership Conference was considered a success by all who attended. Conference co-organizer Galina Krasskova has been rounding up thoughts and reactions from attendees here, here, here, and here. Do check them out for a fuller picture of what went down. In addition the conference has already announced dates for next year, and who their keynote speaker will be: Morpheus Ravenna. Quote: "I'm delighted to announce that Morpheus Ravenna will be our key-note speaker at the Polytheist Leadership Conference in 2015. We just confirmed with her last night. An initiate of the Anderson Feri tradition, Morpheus is a Celtic polytheist, an artist, spiritual worker, and devotee of the Morrigan. She is the leader of the Coru Cathubodua, a priesthood dedicated to this mighty Goddess and was recently featured on the documentary 'American Mystic.'" For further updates, check out the PLC's official website.
In other Polytheist community news, a new website, Polytheist.com, will be launching later this Summer. Spearheaded by Anomalous Thracian (aka Theanos Thrax) the new site plans to be safe, dedicated, home to an incredibly diverse Polytheist population. Quote: "For some time, many Polytheists have been seeking a place for discussing their religions, their divine relations, and their living lineages in such a way that effectively maximizes the vastness of the all-connecting technologies of the internet age to reach out to and commune with other like-minded and like-religioned groups and individuals, without inviting the targeting and resistance often experienced in spaces not dedicated to this specific aim." In a recent editorial published at PaganSquare, Anomalous Thracian endorsed an ethos of "And, Not Or" when it comes to Polytheist-Pagan relations. Quote: "A Polytheist and a Pagan. Not 'either/or'. No war implicit between the two. That does not mean that there is not conflict, and that there is not a need to fight for the rights of identification, of religious and social difference and differentiation; but it does mean that I can dually wield both of those identities. I am never not one, never not either; they do not compete, nor cancel one another out."
Pagan learning institution Cherry Hill Seminary has announced the graduation of Carol Tyler Kirk, awarding her a Masters of Divinity in Pagan Pastoral Counseling, the second such graduation since Cherry Hill Seminary first opened its graduate program in 2009. Quote: "Kirk served the U.S. Army as a nurse in a Vietnam MASH unit from May 1969 to December 1970, then returned home to a career in nursing management. Kirk's master's thesis addresses the needs of the 'wounded warrior,' those returning from deployment overseas and whose war wounds may be non-physical, running deeper into the soul. Publication of the work is in planning. Kirk has also led several covens, and currently serves as a hospital chaplain and interfaith activist in Huntsville, Alabama. A July 2013 article in the Cherry Hill Seminary newsletter relates Kirk's role in establishing the Women's Vietnam Memorial in Washington, D.C., where she spoke at the dedication." Kirk's department chair and advisor, Dr. David Oringderff, said that Kirk set "high standards of excellence for all of our students who follow."
In Other Pagan Community News:
- A new biannual print journal concerning polytheism and spiritwork, Walking the Worlds, has debuted and is looking for submissions. Quote: "Walking the Worlds is a new print journal that will be debuting on the Winter Solstice. Devoted to an exploration of spiritwork and polytheism from a variety of traditions, ancient and modern, we are seeking essays, reviews and poetry on topics such as: gods, ancestors, spirits, spirit-animals, heroes, land-wights, prayer, devotions, offerings, sacrifice, ritual, ritual tech, festivals, temple and shrine-keeping, music, dance, ecstasy, madness, trancework, cleansing, entheogens, healing, initiation, ordeal, divination, oracles, inspired and channeled works, magic, witchcraft, herblore, science, history, mythology and so forth."
- Yeshe Rabbit and Erick DuPree have launched dharmapagan.org as a free online resource that fuses their work with the dharma and Buddhism through a Pagan lens. Yeshe Rabbit and Erick host Dharma Pagan Dialogues and Discussion videos with guests like Sam Webster and Dylan Thomas, invitations to online sangha and practices such as Tea and Chanting and Chanting Green Tara, as well a guest blog. For more information visit: www.dharmapagan.org
- Artist, writer, and scholar Sasha Chaitow is seeking crowdfunding help to attend and participate in the upcoming OCCULT art salon in Salem, Massachusetts. Quote: "I've been invited to the OCCULT Art Salon in Salem, MA this September to participate in the art exhibition and present a workshop on [visionary author Joséphin] Péladan's work. I am preparing a painting for the exhibition, but I need your help to get there, as the travel expenses are well beyond what I can afford as a (barely graduated) ex-grad student."
- A Bad Witch's Blog reports on the recent "Witchcraft Today" 60th anniversary event. Quote: "The tabloid papers often gave particularly lurid, sensationalist and inaccurate accounts of what went on in the Craft. Gerald Gardner was one of the few Wiccans willing to speak to the Press at the time and his book Witchcraft Today was partly written to try to redress the balance and give the public a genuine insight into what witches do."
- At PaganSquare Cat Treadwell reports on the first Pagan Symposium in London, organized by the Pagan Federation. Quote: "Since the discussions over the Census and the PaganDASH project, there has been a need for cohesive voices and a mature approach to the representation of Pagans across the country, as many of our international fellows are already doing. We would try to accomplish this, as individuals and within groups sharing identities and diverse beliefs under the Pagan umbrella. Even just for today, to see if it worked… these few hours would be a test, of sorts."
- The Moon Books blog interview Christine Hoff Kraemer, Pagan theologian, author, and manager of the Patheos Pagan channel. Quote: "I think the strength of Patheos Pagan is that it exists in an inherently interfaith context. One of our writers, Julian Betkowski, recently commented on the dangers of accidentally creating "echo chambers" rather than functional religious communities — small cliques of people in which an agenda is enforced and genuine dialogue is discouraged. Hosting a community of Pagan writers in an interfaith environment helps combat that in a number of ways. It forces us to continually refine our own viewpoints in dialogue with each other *and* with people of other religions. Having regular contact with thoughtful non-Pagans keeps us in mind that despite Pagans' differences, we still have a great deal more in common with each other than we do with the other major Western religions."
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Geoengineering side effects could be potentially disastrous, research shows
- theguardian.com, Tuesday 25 February 2014 11.41 EST
Large-scale human engineering of the Earth's climate to prevent catastrophic global warming would not only be ineffective but would have severe unintended side effects and could not be safely stopped, a comparison of five proposed methods has concluded.
Science academies around the world as well as some climate activists have called for more research into geoengineering techniques, such as reflecting sunlight from space, adding vast quantities of lime or iron filings to the oceans, pumping deep cold nutrient-rich waters to the surface of oceans and irrigating vast areas of the north African and Australian deserts to grow millions of trees. Each method has been shown to potentially reduce temperature on a planetary scale.
But researchers at the Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Germany, modelled these five potential methods and concluded that geoengineering could add chaos to complex and not fully understood weather systems. Even when applied on a massive scale, the most that could be expected, they say, is a temperature drop of about 8%.
The potential side effects would be potentially disastrous, say the scientists, writing in Nature Communications. Ocean upwelling, or the bringing up of deep cold waters, would cool surface water temperatures and reduce sea ice melting, but would unbalance the global heat budget, while adding iron filings or lime would affect the oxygen levels in the oceans. Reflecting the sun's rays into space would alter rainfall patterns and reforesting the deserts could change wind patterns and could even reduce tree growth in other regions.
In addition, say the scientists, two of the five methods considered could not be safely stopped. "We find that, if solar radiation management or ocean upwelling is discontinued then rapid warming occurs. If the other methods are discontinued, less dramatic changes occur. Essentially all of the CO2 that was taken up remains in the ocean."
Geoengineering Ineffective Against Climate Change, Could Make Worse
| A diagram of the geoengineering projects people have proposed to combat climate change. The laws surrounding such projects are still uncertain.
Credit: Diagram by Kathleen Smith/LLNL
Current schemes to minimize the havoc caused by global warming by purposefully manipulating Earth's climate are likely to either be relatively useless or actually make things worse, researchers say in a new study.
The dramatic increase in carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere since the Industrial Revolution is expected to cause rising global sea levels, more-extreme weather and other disruptions to regional and local climates. Carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas that traps heat, so as levels of the gas rise, the planet overall warms.
In addition to efforts to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, some have suggested artificially manipulating the world's climate in a last-ditch effort to prevent catastrophic climate change. These strategies, considered radical in some circles, are known as geoengineering or climate engineering.
Many scientists have investigated and questioned how effective individual geoengineering methods could be. However, there have been few attempts to compare and contrast the various methods, which range from fertilizing the ocean so that marine organisms suck up excess carbon dioxide to shooting aerosols into the atmosphere to reflect some of the sun's incoming rays back into space. [8 Ways Global Warming is Already Changing the World]
Now, researchers using a 3D computer model of the Earth have tested the potential benefits and drawbacks of five different geoengineering technologies.
Will it work?
The scientists found that even when several technologies were combined, geoengineering would be unable to prevent average surface temperatures from rising more than 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit (2 degrees Celsius) above current temperatures by the year 2100. This is, the current limit that international negotiations are focused on. They were unable to do so even when each technology was deployed continuously and at scales as large as currently deemed possible.
"The potential of most climate engineering methods, even when optimistic deployment scenarios were assumed, were much lower than I had expected," said study author Andreas Oschlies, an earth system modeler at the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research in Kiel, Germany.
International Law Encourages Use of Geoengineering Weather Modification
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According to a new study due to be published in 2014, Geoengineering field research is not only allowed, it is encouraged.
The study was authored by Jesse Reynolds at Tilburg Law School in the Netherlands. Reynolds researched the legal status of geoengineering research by analyzing international documents and treaties.
Geo-engineering is the science of manipulating the climate for the stated purpose of fighting mad made climate change. These include Solar Radiation Management (SRM), the practice of spraying aerosols into the sky in an attempt to deflect the Sun's rays and combat climate change.
According to a recent congressional report:
"The term "geoengineering" describes this array of technologies that aim, through large-scale and deliberate modifications of the Earth's energy balance, to reduce temperatures and counteract anthropogenic climate change. Most of these technologies are at the conceptual and research stages, and their effectiveness at reducing global temperatures has yet to be proven. Moreover, very few studies have been published that document the cost, environmental effects, socio-political impacts, and legal implications of geoengineering. If geoengineering technologies were to be deployed, they are expected to have the potential to cause significant transboundary effects.
In general, geoengineering technologies are categorized as either a carbon dioxide removal (CDR) method or a solar radiation management (SRM) method. CDR methods address the warming effects of greenhouse gases by removing carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere. CDR methods include ocean fertilization, and carbon capture and sequestration. SRM methods address climate change by increasing the reflectivity of the Earth's atmosphere or surface.
Aerosol injection and space-based reflectors are examples of SRM methods. SRM methods do not remove greenhouse gases from the atmosphere, but can be deployed faster with relatively immediate global cooling results compared to CDR methods."
Reynolds' study will be published in the Journal of Energy, Climate and the Environment around the same time that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change presents its Fifth Assessment Report. The study continues the calls for an international body to regulate the controversial weather modification techniques.
Some believe the answer is international agreement for international tests but low-risk domestic research should continue to assist in the overall decision of what to do with geoengineering.
One of the many dangers of manipulating the weather are the loss of blue skies. According to a report by the New Scientist, Ben Kravitz of the Carnegie Institution for Science has shown that releasing sulphate aerosols high in the atmosphere would scatter sunlight into the atmosphere. He says this could decrease the amount of sunlight that hits the ground by 20% and make the sky appear more hazy.
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With prominent scientists now calling for experiments to test whether pumping sulfates into the atmosphere could safely counteract global warming, critics worry that the world community may be moving a step closer to deploying this controversial technology.
In 1991, Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines erupted in one of the largest volcanic blasts of the 20th century. It spat up to 20 million tons of sulfur into the upper atmosphere, shielding the earth from the sun's rays and causing global temperatures to drop by nearly half a degree Celsius in a single year. That's more than half of the amount the planet has warmed
Studies have shown that such a strategy would be powerful, feasible, fast-acting, and cheap.
due to climate change in 130 years.
Now some scientists are thinking about replicating Mount Pinatubo's dramatic cooling power by intentionally spewing sulfates into the atmosphere to counteract global warming. Studies have shown that such a strategy would be powerful, feasible, fast-acting, and cheap, capable in principle of reversing all of the expected worst-case warming over the next century or longer, all the while increasing plant productivity. Harvard University physicist David Keith, one of the world's most vocal advocates of serious research into such a scheme, calls it "a cheap tool that could green the world." In the face of anticipated rapid climate change, Keith contends that the smart move is to intensively study both the positive and negative effects of using a small fleet of jets to inject
sulfate aerosols high into the atmosphere to block a portion of the sun's rays.
Yet even Keith acknowledges that there are serious concerns about solar geoengineering, both in terms of the environment and politics. Growing discussion about experimentation with solar radiation management has touched off an emotional debate, with proponents saying the technique may be needed to avert climate catastrophe and opponents warning that deployment could lead to international conflicts and unintended environmental consequences — and that experimentation would create a slippery slope that would inevitably lead to deployment. University of Chicago geophysicist Raymond Pierrehumbert has called the scheme "barking mad." Canadian environmentalist David Suzuki has dismissed it as "insane." Protestors have stopped even harmless, small-scale field experiments that aim to explore the idea. And Keith has received a couple of death threats from the fringe of the environmentalist community.
Clearly, there are good reasons for concern. Solar geoengineering would likely make the planet drier, potentially disrupting monsoons in places like India and creating drought in parts of the tropics. The technique could help eat away the protective ozone shield of our planet, and it would cause air pollution. It would also do nothing to counteract the problem of ocean
Some worry that solar geoengineering would hand politicians an easy reason to avoid emissions reductions.
acidification, which occurs when the seas absorb high levels of CO2 from the atmosphere.
Some worry that solar geoengineering would hand politicians an easy reason to avoid reducing greenhouse gas emissions. And if the impacts of climate change worsen and nations cannot agree on what scheme to deploy, or at what temperature the planet's thermostat should be set, then conflict or even war could result as countries unilaterally begin programs to inject sulfates into the atmosphere. "My greatest concern is societal disruption and conflict between countries," says Alan Robock, a climatologist at Rutgers University in New Jersey.
As Keith himself summarizes, "Solar geoengineering is an extraordinarily powerful tool. But it is also dangerous."
Studies have shown that solar radiation management could be accomplished and that it would cool the planet. Last fall, Keith published a book, A Case for Climate Engineering, that lays out the practicalities of such a scheme. A fleet of ten Gulfstream jets could be used to annually inject 25,000 tons of sulfur — as finely dispersed sulfuric acid, for example — into the lower stratosphere. That would be ramped up to a million tons of sulfur per year by 2070, in order to counter about half of the world's warming from greenhouse gases. The idea is to combine such a scheme with emissions cuts, and keep it running for about twice as long as it takes for CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere to level out.
Under Keith's projections, a world that would have warmed 2 degrees C by century's end would instead warm 1 degree C. Keith says his "moderate, temporary" plan would help to avoid many of the problems associated with full-throttle solar geoengineering schemes that aim to counteract all of the planet's warming, while reducing the cost of adapting to rapid climate change. He estimates this scheme would cost about $700 million annually — less than 1 percent of what is currently spent on clean energy development. If such relatively modest cost projections prove to be accurate, some individual countries could deploy solar geoengineering technologies without international agreement.
'The thing that's surprising is the degree to which it's being taken more seriously,' says one scientist.
The idea of solar geoengineering dates back at least to the 1970s; researchers have toyed with a range of ideas, including deploying giant mirrors to deflect solar energy back into space, or spraying salt water into the air to make more reflective clouds. In recent years the notion of spraying sulfates into the stratosphere has moved to the forefront. "Back in 2000 we just thought of it as a 'what if' thought experiment," says atmospheric scientist Ken Caldeira of the Carnegie Institution for Science, who did some of the first global climate modeling work on the concept. "In the last years, the thing that's surprising is the degree to which it's being taken more seriously in the policy world."
In 2010, the first major cost estimates of sulfate-spewing schemes were produced. In 2012, China listed geoengineering among its earth science research priorities. Last year, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's summary statement for policymakers controversially mentioned geoengineering for the first time in the panel's 25-year history. And the National Academy of Sciences is working on a geoengineering report, funded in part by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency.
Solar geoengineering cannot precisely counteract global warming. Carbon dioxide warms the planet fairly evenly, while sunshine is patchy: There's more in the daytime, in the summer, and closer to the equator. Back in the 1990s, Caldeira was convinced that these differences would make geoengineering ineffective. "So we did these simulations, and much to our surprise it did a pretty good job," he says. The reason is that a third factor has a bigger impact on climate than either CO2 or sunlight: polar ice. If you cool the planet enough to keep that ice, says Caldeira, then this dominates the climate response.
Geoengineering could bring severe drought to the tropics, research shows
- theguardian.com, Wednesday 8 January 2014 00.59 EST
Reversing climate change via huge artificial volcanic eruptions could bring severe droughts to large regions of the tropics, according to new scientific research.
The controversial idea of geoengineering – deliberately changing the Earth's climate – is being seriously discussed as a last-ditch way of avoiding dangerous global warming if efforts to slash greenhouse gas emissions fail.
But the new work shows that a leading contender – pumping sulphate particles into the stratosphere to block sunlight – could have side-effects just as serious as the effects of warming itself. Furthermore, the impacts would be different around the world, raising the prospect of conflicts between nations that might benefit and those suffering more damage.
"There are a lot of issues regarding governance – who controls the thermostat – because the impacts of geoengineering will not be uniform everywhere," said Dr Andrew Charlton-Perez, at the University of Reading and a member of the research team.
The study, published in the journal Environmental Research Letters, is the first to convincingly model what happens to rainfall if sulphates were deployed on a huge scale.
While the computer models showed that big temperature rises could be completely avoided, it also showed cuts in rain of up to one-third in South America, Asia and Africa. The consequent droughts would affect billions of people and also fragile tropical rainforests that act as a major store of carbon. "We would see changes happening so quickly that there would be little time for people to adapt," said Charlton-Perez.
Another member of the research team, Professor Ellie Highwood, said: "On the evidence of this research, stratospheric aerosol geoengineering is not providing world leaders with any easy answers to the problem of climate change."
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♥ Shawna
i completely agree with you! love is everywhere :)
i just came across your blog and i love it, so now following.
congratulations on your award too :)
Love is everywhere :) What a pretty post, congrats on the award and thank you so much for passing it on to me :)
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What a sweet post! And...congrats to you! I will check out these other blogs as well!
Congratulations Shawna! Well done :-)
Thanks so much for passing this on to me, when I get one (which isn't from you, lol) you'll be first on my list (which you always were).
I shall be passing my lovely new award along soon!
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I love the pictures here! Your blog is great and congrats on the award. You deserve it!
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A lightweight showdown between Tyson Griffin (14-4 MMA, 7-4 UFC) and Nik Lentz (19-3-2 MMA, 3-0 UFC) has been targeted for UFC 123.
MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) learned of the bout, which was first reported by MMAWeekly.com, on Wednesday evening from sources close to the event who said verbal agreements were in place with paperwork on the way.
UFC 123 is expected to take place Nov. 20 at The Palace of Auburn Hills in suburban Detroit, though the promotion has yet to officially announce the event.
It is unknown whether Griffin vs. Lentz will air on the televised portion of UFC 123.
Griffin is still under a medical suspension he received in the wake of his first knockout loss, which came just 64 seconds into his fight with former PRIDE champion Takanori Gomi at UFC on Versus 2.
It was a bitter defeat for the Xtreme Couture standout, who protested the referee's stoppage despite a right hook that put him on the canvas face-first. He declined to shake hands with the Japanese star after pacing the octagon a few times.
Prior to that, Griffin was upset at UFC 115 by rising star Evan Dunham, who won the three-round fight by maintaining dominant position on the mat. The loss snapped a two-fight win streak.
Lentz, meanwhile, is coming off back-to-back wins inside the octagon and a heap of criticism from hardcore MMA fans. While he dominated his most recent opponent, "The Ultimate Fighter 9" veteran Andre Winner, and earned a unanimous decision at UFC 118, many observers were not impressed by the fight's lack of action, to put it mildly.
Still, Lentz has yet to fall short in the octagon with a January draw against Thiago Tavares serving as the only unusual footnote to his UFC career.
For additional coverage of UFC 123, stay tuned to the UFC Rumors section of MMAjunkie.com.
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These skinny jeans truly leave nothing to the imagination. Good thing they're fake.
American Eagle Outfitters' new YouTube ad purporting to sell spray-on jeans has gone viral much to the delight of the company's marketing department.
"We wanted to have fun with our fans," Vice President of Brand Marketing Bob Holobinko said on the Today show. "And the response has been incredible."
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At first glance, it looks like any other American Eagle Outfitters ad, replete with cool-looking young adults doing cool things and wearing the retailer's latest creation: Skinny Skinny jeans.
But about 17 seconds into the video, viewers will notice that something is amok. The Skinny Skinny jeans are actually spray painted on and the actors are wearing no pants at all.
The YouTube video has been viewed almost 350,000 times, as of Friday morning. This faux ad comes a week after Pepsi launched a video that shows NASCAR star Jeff Gordon pranking a hapless car salesman. The salesman was reportedly in on the joke, but the video's popularity underscored the power of viral ads and its ability to promote brand awareness and get people talking.
"This is phenomenal," marketing consultant Peter Shankman said of American Eagle on the Today show. "A great way to bust out from the mainstream and people are talking about it."
The link in the video description takes viewers to AEO's online store, which purports to sell the spray-on jeans in Indigo and Bright Light.
But to be clear, the paint is not for sale, Holobinko said. Visitors who try to purchase the paint will get a message that says they're out of stock and a prompt that asks for shoppers' email addresses.
It isn't a total loss for those who were seeking a bigger pay-off to the fake ad.
"There will be an offer that the customer will receive throughout the campaign when we capture their email at the end," he said.
Holobinko also hinted that there will be more ads to come. The second ad is slated to appear next week.
"We think of it is as a journey," he said. "So this is the first installment."